Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Aryeh
> Gregor<[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Kalan<[email protected]> wrote:
>>     
>>> The only way as I see it is making <a> an extension tag
>>>       
>> Why?  We'd be doing this in core, not in an extension.  We could just
>> adjust Parser.php appropriately.
>>
>>     
>>> Anyway, it’s up to devs (seemingly Tim in particular) to decide.
>>>       
>> I am a dev.  I've considered doing this, but doubt I'll find the time
>> in the foreseeable future.  I don't know whether it would be more
>> complicated to allow <a> or extended wikilinks.  It would be up to
>> whoever implements it, should it be implemented.
>>     
>
> If we want to maintain the pretense that ordinary articles should be
> reasonably accessible to edit, I'd suggest that using <a> is probably
> a better choice than extending the wikilink syntax.  It feels more
> natural to keep the special cases somewhat segregated in that way from
> the ordinary code.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>   

I suggest to use <a> for external links extended syntax and parametrized 
[[]] for internal links so we can easily distinguish them.
--vvv

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